COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Gold futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 56,615 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 54,856 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 163 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from December 2020 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 67,241 contracts on 18 November 2025; they recorded a bottom of 3,983 on 2 May 2023; they had a mean of 21,437.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 55,385.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 54,856.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 56,615.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other reporting traders in gold futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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